Mike Gunton
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- Production
Biography
Mike Gunton is a British television producer and a senior executive at the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife film-making. In November 2009 he became the Unit's first Creative Director. As Creative Director of BBC Studios Natural History Unit, he is responsible for bringing new and pioneering stories about the natural world to global audiences, including the BAFTA and Emmy winning Planet Earth II, which was viewed by millions worldwide. In 2018, his ground-breaking animal behaviours series, Dynasties, won a number of awards and was acclaimed by Sir David Attenborough as inventing a new genre in natural history film making. A fellow of the Royal Television Society, he also speaks internationally and is an ambassador for natural history making, BBC Studios and the natural world. He was the executive producer of Life, a nature documentary series which revealed the adaptive survival strategies of animals around the world, and as the co-author (with Martha Holmes) of the accompanying book. He co-directed (with Holmes) a feature film version of Life, and was the executive producer of a major BBC One series on African wildlife, broadcast in 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Gunton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Hidden Planet
TV · Executive Producer
Lion
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Planet Earth: Forces of Nature
Movie · Executive Producer
The Americas
TV · Executive Producer · 10 eps
Kingdom
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster
Movie · Executive Producer
Planet Earth: Hostile Paradise or Perfect Hell?
Movie · Producer
Planet Earth III
TV · Executive Producer · 8 eps
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Movie · Executive Producer
The Green Planet
TV · Executive Producer · 5 eps
Prehistoric Planet
TV · Executive Producer · 15 eps
The Year Earth Changed
Movie · Executive Producer
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Movie · Executive Producer
Big Cats
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Dynasties
TV · Executive Producer · 9 eps
The Lake District: A Wild Year
Movie · Executive Producer
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
Movie · Executive Producer
Zoo Quest in Colour
Movie · Executive Producer
Planet Earth II
TV · Executive Producer · 1 ep
Attenborough's Paradise Birds
Movie · Executive Producer
Life Story
TV · Producer · 6 eps
Hidden Kingdoms
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
The Great British Year
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Africa
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
Movie · Executive Producer
Madagascar
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Life
TV · Executive Producer · 10 eps
Yellowstone
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Planet Earth
TV · Executive Producer · 11 eps
Galapagos
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Europe: A Natural History
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Wild Europe
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television
Movie · Executive Producer
The Trials of Life
Movie · Producer
The Making Of The Trials Of Life - Once More Into The Termite Mound
Movie · Producer